Do they watch me trot to the top of the hill,the cows who are milling and mooing? I bellow and blow and paw the ground and make a sort of a snorting sound and toss my terrible horns around --(The cows - have they stopped their chewing?)

I'm striking a pose; I'm standing stillas a statue here on the top of the hill. I flick my tail, as I stately stand, at a fool of a fly who has dared to land on the royal rump of a bull so grand --(Are they watching whatever I'm doing?)

What do you think the meaning of the word "terrible" is in the first stanza, line 5? Give EVIDENCE as to WHY you think that.

I think terrible means deadly in the story.
I think that because in the text it says: and toss my terrible horns around!

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7

5/4/2015 06:41:01 am

I think it means frightful because people think that the horns are dangerous.

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2

5/4/2015 07:07:07 am

I think the meaning of the word terrible means frightful because it talks about how this bull when to the top of a hill and all the animals stopped what they were doing to see the bull.

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21

5/4/2015 07:35:34 am

I think terrible means frightful and dangerous because in the text it says "and I toss my Terrible horns around!

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#11

5/4/2015 07:46:45 am

I think the word terrible means frightful and scary. If I put scary were terrible is supposed to be, it woud make sense- ''and I toss my scary [terrible] horns around.

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#9

5/4/2015 07:59:46 am

i think it means frightful because it would make sense.........................................................and i toss my frightful horns around.

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#4

5/4/2015 08:00:37 am

I think the word terrible from the poem means vicious and threatening. I think it means vicious and threatening because the speaker is talking about it's horns and horns could be used to attack. He's also trying to see if any of the cows are nervous which means he thinks that his horns are vicious and threatening.

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#13

5/4/2015 08:02:17 am

Terrible means frightful and that is good with frightful horns and terrible horns.

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#19

5/4/2015 08:10:08 am

I think that the meaning of the word "terrible" is, big, and scary because, bulls are usually very scary. Also I think that the word terrible means, big. I think this because, in the text it says that the bull, "whips his horns around. Also, I sometimes think that terrible means like big, and bad!

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#17

5/4/2015 08:21:33 am

I think it means frightful because I think so

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#8

5/4/2015 08:34:44 am

I think terrible means scary. I do because it says in the line before, "and make a sort of snorting sound".

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5

5/4/2015 08:48:13 am

I think terrible means frightening because horns can terrible if you get hurt with them.

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#24

5/4/2015 08:52:41 am

Terrible means horrible. A bull's horns are horrible.

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#6

5/4/2015 09:22:01 am

I think the word "terrible" in the poem means dangerous. The way I knew that the word terrible meant dangerous was the cows were looking and the bull was trying to make them scared or impress so they could be wow he is so big. Also trying to make himself (the bull) scary so the cows would think that he is the scariest thing in the whole entire world.

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#18

5/4/2015 09:58:52 am

I think "terrible" means savage because mostly bulls are charging at stuff and stabing also because bulls do violent stuff with there horns and can be malicios.

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#15

5/4/2015 10:04:09 am

You can tell that a bull is deadly because the poem is mainly about how big and bad a bull is. So if it has terrible horns they are deadly and dangerous.

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#1

5/4/2015 10:06:03 am

I think the way they use " terrible" in this text is describing a powerful movement by the bull. I think that because lines 3 and 4 all lead up to line 5. It makes me think of a powerful action all together.

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#22

5/4/2015 10:12:30 am

I think "terrible" means big and strong.

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20

5/4/2015 10:16:11 am

1. I think the meaning of the word terrible is very very bad.
2. I found it in the text where it says that the bull goes bellow and blow and paw the ground and make a sort of snorting sound and toss his terrible horns around.

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#10

5/4/2015 10:21:29 am

I think the word terrible means horrible or bad because bulls horns are sharp and thick and can easily stab someone.

I think terrible here means strong and impressive. The lines "Do they watch me trot to the top of the hill" and "(The cows - have they stopped their chewing?)" imply that he is trying to impress the cows.

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#16

5/4/2015 11:11:06 am

I think that terrible means sharp strong and huge because it says in the text "I toss my terrible horns around (The cows have they stopped chewing?)" So if he is trying to impress them he would have sharpened them and made sure there strong and defiantly would have grown them because I would defiantly would not show of small horns and have them little nubs if you are trying to impress someone.